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Current World View Dominance Dominance All encompassing materialism All encompassing materialism Mastery Mastery Mechanisticall can be understood, engineered to do what we want it to, and can be fixed. Mechanisticall can be understood, engineered to do what we want it to, and can be fixed. Question: What does this view mean for us personally? Question: What does this view mean for us personally?

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It is one of the great ironies of our age that we created organizations to constrain our problematic human natures, and now the only thing that can save these organizations is a full appreciation of the expansive capacities of us humans. p. 21 -Margaret J. Wheatley -Margaret J. Wheatley from Finding Our Way

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Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept. Everywhere life displays itself as complex, tangled, messy webs of relationships. From these relationships, life creates systems that offer greater stability and support than life lived alone. Organisms shape themselves in response to their neighbors and their environments. p. 25 -biologist Lynn Margulis -biologist Lynn Margulis quoted in Finding Our Way

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Simultaneously, the process of organizing involves developing relationships from a shared sense of purpose, exchanging and creating information, learning constantly, paying attention to the results of our efforts, coadapting, coevolving, developing wisdom as we learn, staying clear about our purpose, being alert to changes from all directions. p. 27 -Margaret J. Wheatley -Margaret J. Wheatley from Finding Our Way

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Lifes first imperative is that it must be free to create itself. One biological definition of life is that something is alive if it has the capacity to create itself. Life begins with this primal freedom to create, the capacity for self-determination. An individual creates itself with a boundary that distinguishes itself from others. Every individual and species is a different solution for how to live here. This freedom gives rise to the boundless diversity of the planet…. Lifes second imperative propels individuals out from themselves to search for community. p. 46 -Margaret J. Wheatley -Margaret J. Wheatley from Finding Our Way

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Rather than being a self-protective wall, boundaries become the place of meeting and exchange. We usually think of these edges as the means to define separateness, defining whats inside and whats outside. But in living systems, boundaries are something quite different. They are the place where new relationships form, an important place of exchange and growth as an individual chooses to respond to another. p. 48 -Margaret J. Wheatley -Margaret J. Wheatley from Finding Our Way from Finding Our Way

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The whole globe is shook up, so what are you going to do when things are falling apart? Youre either going to become more fundamentalist (tied to traditional thinking) and try to hold things together, or youre going to forsake the old ambitions and goals and live life as an experiment, making it up as you go along. p.14 -Pema Chödrön

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To quote Mary Catherine Bateson in Composing a Life. …life is an improvisatory art, about the ways we combine familiar and unfamiliar components in response to new situations, following an underlying grammar and an evolving aesthetic…. We need …to look at problems as the creative opportunities they present. I believe that our aesthetic sense, whether in works of art or lives, has overfocused on the stubborn struggle toward a single goal rather than on the fluid, the protean, the improvisatory. We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic…rather than something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt... pp. 3-4.